I Quotes
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“It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of Arnold Bennett (Illustrated)
“It is within the family that children learn the values that will guide them for the rest of their lives. It is within the family that they form their earliest relationships, learn to communicate with others and interact with the world around them. It is within the family that the notion of human rights becomes a reality lived on a daily basis. If tolerance, respect and equity permeate family life, they will translate into values that shape societies, nations and the world.”
“It is within the hearts and minds of ordinary citizens that the seeds of change take root, birthing a new narrative of governance that transcends the self-serving agendas of politicians and oligarchs.”
Source: What is Wrong with Society Today
“It is within the last quarter century or thirty years. And a lot of that law has turned out to be very, very protective of the press and the public's right to know.”
“It is within the police power of the state to prohibit public use of fighting words that create a danger of breach of the peace, but simply to prohibit public use of fighting words is too broad. Those words may sometimes be used in situations where there is no danger.”
Source: Technologies of Freedom
“It is within the power of every man to become great.”
Source: The Science of Getting Rich, Great And Well (Annotated Edition)
“It is within the power of every man to live his life nobly, but of no man to live forever. Yet so many of us hope that life will go on forever, and so few aspire to live nobly.”
“It is within the power of writers and artists to do much more: to defeat the lie!”
“It is within the sanctuary of the Church that we protect our faith. Meeting together with others who believe, we pray and find answers to our prayers; we worship through music, share testimony of the Savior, serve one another, and feel the Spirit of the Lord. We partake of the sacrament, receive the blessings of the priesthood, and attend the temple. . . When you are faced with a test of faith, stay within the safety and security of the household of God. There is always a place for you here. No trial is so large we can't overcome it together.”
“It is within this fathoms-long carcass, with its mind and its notions, that I declare there is the world, the origin of the world, the cessation of the world and the path leading to the cessation of the world.”
“It is within you that the ghosts acquire voices.”
Source: Under the Jaguar Sun
“It is within your competence to think and thus to get bound or to cease thinking and thus be free.”
“It is within your loving and welcoming arms that a new generation will arrive & be greeted.”
Source: The Soulful Pathway To Motherhood: Soulfully Empowering Your Life's Journey & Purpose As a Mother Through Positive Inspiration
“It is within your power at this very moment not only to consumate an act of enlightened statesmanship, but, as the instrument of the Almighty, to restore to freedom a race of men.”
“It is within your power to see that all you have experienced, trials, errors, faults, deceptions, passions, your love and your hope, shall be merged wholly in your aim.”
Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two
“It is, without a doubt, the most delicious orange I've ever eaten. Notes of raspberry give it a tartness and complexity that leave the classic supermarket navel orange in the dust.
"It's sunshine. It's bittersweet. It's perfect. My god," I say, gasping. "I think I just fell in love. I'm going to have a civil partnership with an orange."
Leo, who has been fairly quiet for the last half hour, leans forward onto his elbows. "They're not for everyone," he says, taking a segment. "Very fleshy, delicately juicy, and not obscenely sweet."
"Fleshy?" Luca says, tipping his glass toward us, playing with his mustache.
"Delicately juicy?" I say, raising an eyebrow. I expect Leo to feel embarrassed, but instead he shoots Luca a cheeky grin, eyes buzzing with mischief.
"Seriously, Olive," Luca says. "For me, the orange is so special to Sicily. We juice it, we ice it, we bake it, we zest it. It's an aperitif, a pasta dish, a dessert. It's the color of sunset on the outside, and a bleeding heart inside.”
Source: Just One Taste
“It is without doubt, nowadays, that many students lack the ability to know or find their true passions in life; after all the criticism they went through. Whether it is at school, college, university or any learning environment.”
Source: Treatise Upon The Misconceptions of Narcissism
“It is without doubt that, our societies can either
make or break us.”
Source: Treatise Upon The Misconceptions of Narcissism
“It is women, not men, who determine what success is or looks like.”
“It is women's fatal susceptibility to passionate touch that hypnotises them into by far the greater number of their disasters; for under this touch-hypnosis the present transforms itself into the eternal, and their grand sex-defence, their consciousness of continuity, their awareness of the future as an integral portion of the present, is shattered and broken up.”
Source: A Glastonbury Romance
“It is women who bear the race in bloody agony. Suffering is a kind of horror. Blood is a kind of horror. Women are born with horror in their very bloodstream. It is a biological thing.”
“It is women who love horror. Gloat over it. Feed on it. Are nourished by it. Shudder and cling and cry out-and come back for more.”
“It is wonderful, awesome and merrywise to see satan lose the battle to us in fear and panic and shame! Our victory is in Christ Jesus!”
“It is wonderful for us to live together in harmony and peace.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“It is wonderful for us to live together in love, in peace and in faith.”
“It is wonderful how attractive a gentle, pleasant manner is, and how much it wins hearts.”
Source: Introduction to the Devout Life
“It is wonderful how cheered a pilot becomes after he shoots down his first machine; his morale increases by at least 100 percent.”
“It is wonderful how God works by our hands, and yet His own hand does it all.”
“It is wonderful how much depends upon the relations of black and white A black and white, if properly balanced, suggests colour.”
Source: Winslow Homer: Master of the Wood Engraving
“It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.”
Source: Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts
“It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.”
Source: The Story of My Life
“It is wonderful how preposterously the affairs of the world are managed. We assemble parliaments and councils to have the benefit of collected wisdom, but we necessarily have, at the same time, the inconvenience of their collected passions, prejudices and private interests: for regulating commerce an assembly of great men is the greatest fool on earth”
“It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.”
Source: Delphi Complete Novels of E. Nesbit
“It is wonderful how shy even liberal ministers generally are about trusting people with the plain truth concerning their religion. They want to veil it in a supernatural haze. They are very reluctant to part with the old idea that God has given to Jews and Christians a peculiar monopoly of truth. It is a selfish view of God's government of the world, and it is time that we knew enough to outgrow it.”
“It is wonderful how the mind is stirred and quickened into activity by brisk bodily exercise.”
Source: Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero: with his treatises on friendship and old age
“It is wonderful how well men can keep secrets they have not been told.”
Source: Great destiny: sixty years of the memorable events in the life of the man of the century recounted in his own incomparable words
“It is wonderful that five thousand years have now elapsed since the creation of the world, and still it is undecided whether or not there has ever been an instance of the spirit of any person appearing after death. All argument is against it; but all belief is for it.”
Source: The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides
“It is wonderful,
this whole business
of tickling and kissing
God every night.”
“It is wonderful to be despised, if, deep down, we know we are right.”
“It is wonderful to be in on the creation of something, see it used, and then walk away and smile at it.”
“It is wonderful to be in solidarity with another big group of people.”
“It is wonderful to be in the country in a glass house, because no matter what happens out there, you're nice and safe, you know, cuddled in your little bed, and there it is, raging storms, snowing - wonderful.”
“It is wonderful to be physically present in the same space as a child.”
Source: The Flower of Heaven: Opening the Divine Heart Through Conscious Friendship & Love Activism
“It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw, not because she is Canada but because she's something sublime that you were born into, some great rugged power that you are a part of.”
Source: Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr
“It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw.”
Source: Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr
“It is wonderful to have great ambitions and splendid dreams as long as these ambitions and dreams are wonderful for the humanity too!”
“It is wonderful to have someone praise you, to be desired.”
“It is wonderful to hear of the relief efforts that are finally coming to New Orleans and the rest of the region, but as well all know, it is simply not going to be enough.”
“It is wonderful to me that old men should not be sensible that their minds keep pace with their bodies in the progress of decay.”
Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence and Papers, 1808-1816
“It is wonderful to see how happy all my friends in the LA Philharmonic are in their new home.”